Quo Vadis: a narrative of the time of Nero by Henryk Sienkiewiczpage 1 of 747 (00%)

QUO VADIS

A Narrative of the Time of Nero

by Henryk Sienkiewicz

Translated from the Polish by Jeremiah Curtin

TO AUGUSTE COMTE,

Of San Francisco, Cal.,

MY DEAR FRIEND AND CLASSMATE, I BEG TO DEDICATE THIS VOLUME.

JEREMIAH CURTIN

INTRODUCTORY

IN the trilogy "With Fire and Sword," "The Deluge," and "Pan Michael,"Sienkiewicz has given pictures of a great and decisive epoch in modernhistory. The results of the struggle begun under Bogdan Hmelnitski havebeen felt for more than two centuries, and they are growing daily inimportance. The Russia which rose out of that struggle has become apower not only of European but of world-wide significance, and, to allhuman seeming, she is yet in an early stage of her career.

In "Quo Vadis" the author gives us pictures of opening scenes in theconflict of moral ideas with the Roman Empire,--a conflict from which